Monday, April 09th, 2012

Living Legacies: the Human Cost of the "Secret War"

Laguna Blanca School in Laos  A special guest blog by PWT's founder, Alethea Tyner Paradis, reflects on the lingering effects of the CIA's "Secret War" in Laos, while traveling with a group of students through Xien Khuang and the Plain of Jars.   We travel the bomb-riddled mountains riding aloft in our air-conditioned private bus, views of a struggling existence rolling along like… [Read Full Article]

Monday, April 02th, 2012

Laguna Blanca Students Support Lao UXO Victim’s Children – April 2012

 Laguna Blanca School in Laos Dori Shimoda, founder of Give Children a Choice, guest blogs about his experience in Laos meeting the Laguna Blanca students traveling with Peace Works Travel.Barbara and I were very fortunate (and we thank our good friend Fred Branfman for the introduction) to have met Ms. Alethea Paradis. She’s an attorney, turned teacher, turned entrepreneur who… [Read Full Article]

Friday, March 30th, 2012

Making New Friends at the Peace Works Travel Village

Santa Barbara students in VietnamDay 8 - Hanoi/Peace Works Travel VillageToday, our second full day in Hanoi, we ventured to the outskirts to visit the Peace Works Travel Village. As we were further informed by the headmaster through translation by our tour guide, Peace Works Travel Village is a completely free school for victims of Agent Orange. The school is… [Read Full Article]

Thursday, March 29th, 2012

Elephant Rides and Lessons in Living History

Laguna Blanca School in Cambodia From the time we heard the plan for today, all anyone could talk about was the fact that we would be riding elephants. After what was comparatively a late start (we left the hotel at 7:30), we headed to the temples for the third time. We were soon on the elephants and bobbing peacefully along… [Read Full Article]

Tuesday, March 27th, 2012

Siem Reap: Temple Tours and Shadow Puppet Orphanage

Laguna Blanca School in CambodiaGreetings from Cambodia! Today Milo and I reunited with the Laguna Blanca School group in Siem Reap, where we’re all having a great time. Today’s activities involved visits to some of Angkor’s “lesser” temples, if you can call them that—even the smaller, more remote complexes are staggeringly beautiful, juxtaposing human artifice with the power of nature, where the… [Read Full Article]